Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.

The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

Oscar Wilde

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

Harry A. Overstreet

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

.. solo essere liberi di andarsene ogni giorno può dimostrarci la sincerit? di un rapporto.

Vasco Rossi

If school success were a reliable index of human capacity, we should be able to go a step further and say that the intelligence test is a general measure of human capacity. But of course no such claim can be made for school success, for that would be to say that the purpose of the schools is to measure capacity. It is impossible to admit this. The childÂ’s success with school work cannot be a measure of a childÂ’s success in life. On the contrary, his success in life must be a significant measure of the schoolÂ’s success in developing the capacities of the child. If a child fails in school and then fails in life, the school cannot sit back and say: you see how accurately I predicted this. Unless we are to admit that education is essentially impotent, we have to throw back the childÂ’s failure at the school, and describe it as a failure not by the child but by the school.http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5172/

Walter Lippmann

The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves

Newton Diehl Baker

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Thomas Carlyle

And the uniqueness of every momentseeks the path from pain to a pearl.

Lina Kostenko

But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.

Rachel Griffiths

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Elbert Hubbard

All the nationalists are wasms -- except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.

John Lukacs

Any ceremony performed in the absence of reasonable knowledge as to cause and effect is magic.

Bernard Wolfe